On The Daily Show Wednesday night, host Jon Stewart eviscerated Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) ridiculous claims that he never referred to Social Security and Medicare recipients as "takers," even though he clearly did.

“Look, the idea that Republicans had actually characterized even Social Security and Medicare as hallmarks of a taker society, I’ll let the speakers from this year’s Republican National Convention in Tampa explain how that came to be,” Stewart said, playing a clip featuring various Republicans spouting the convention's much-maligned theme. “Yeah, you built that shit.”

Hippies have a bad reputation, especially among conservatives. In 1967, the “National Review” said that hippies were self-indulgent and had a “horrified rejection of work and production”. Their thinking, “if indeed thinking it can be called, is more like orgiastic love-spluttering than coherent thought.” They might cause “outbreaks of polio and typhoid”.